‘The first one in the door and the last one to leave the gym’ By Bill Foley You should see Julie (Leary) Nadeau play pool. With pretty much only the use of her right arm, she will maneuver her motorized wheelchair around the table to study the angles. She strategically places an ashtray on the
READ MORELooking back on a basketball career filled with greatness and heartache By Bill Foley It’s not that Gary Kane doesn’t like people. He just prefers the company of fish. That is why quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic has been no big deal for the 1989 Butte High graduate. He has been trying to quarantine for
READ MOREBILLINGS — Quinn (Peoples) Carter clearly made an impression in her career at MSU-Billings. The school unveiled its Yellowjackets Women’s Basketball All-Decade Team this week, and the Butte Central graduate made the team as a reserve player. Carter will go down as one of the best shooters in the history of the Billings school. While
READ MOREBILLINGS — Bryon Baker’s pitching career at MSU-Billings was shortened drastically by injuries. The Butte High graduate, however, clearly made a strong impression with the Yellowjackets. The school released its All-Decade Team for baseball this week, and Baker earned a spot as a reserve pitcher. Baker, a former Butte Miner, pitched form 2013 through 2017
READ MOREBy Bill Foley Diego Hammett’s life changed forever when Charlie Merrifield called him out of class. It was the spring of 1988, and school was not going very well for Hammett, a sophomore at Butte High School. After his parents divorced, Hammett was living with his mother and grandmother in Butte, and his mother, Marcia,
READ MOREQB was ‘that guy’ for ’81 champions By Bill Foley Don Douglas is perfectly OK if history remembers him as Dani Douglas’ father. For the past two seasons, Dani has played on the women’s basketball team at Vassar College, an NCAA Division III school in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 2017, she helped lead Columbia
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